Update for folks that are interested.
The Ubuntu 8.04 box 32bit box which is a 1.7 GHz Pentium is still installing.
It does seem to be very, very slow. The graphical installer is working fine so
far.
Maxrates are
From: Mon Sep 21 10:19:31 2009
To: Mon Sep 21 15:30:39 2009
MIPS: 8.147387
SIOS: 169
And CPU usage on the host is at 100%.
Does this seem normal? At this rate it make take days to install.
I do only have 512MB of RAM set aside for Hercules on this box.
Over the weekend on my Ubuntu 9.04 64bit box the install completed in about 8
hours. Still longer than I thought it should take. This box is a 4GB Quad
2.4GHz with 2GB and 3 CPU cores dedicated to my Hercules emulator.
Maxrates on it hit about 180 MIPS.
I did hit an error I could not get around.
When I the
ssh -X r...@ip-address
to start the install the first part that was text based worked fine.
When the X Window tried to open on my desktop an error was returned stating a
Bad Value was passed.
I have dual screens with a Nvidia card on the host so I thought maybe that was
confusing X somehow.
I placed it back to the 1 monitor but same error.
I ended up invoking ssh without the -X to finish the text installer. That did
work and 5.4 is install and will boot under Hercules.
Again, same question. Does this seem like a reasonable install time?
Next Step:
I have booted zVM 5.3 but have not really done anything with it.
My next goal is to boot that and setup at least 2 zLinux installations.
Likely I will use the disk files I have already created.
It has been almost 20 years since I have done any VM/CMS commands. I have to
break a few books out.
Thanks again for any and all feedback.
Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: Marcellus, Ed
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 4:10 PM
To: 'Linux on 390 Port'
Subject: RE: Installing Redhat 5.3 or 5.4 in Hercules
Dan,
Thanks a lot.
Compiling 3.06 on my 8.04 box and using your config as a sample as gotten me
further.
Your LCS setup was much simpler than others I had seen and seems to be the
trick.
It is currently installing.
Seeing how this is such an old PC I bet it will take 5-6 hours to install.
Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Horák
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:57 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Installing Redhat 5.3 or 5.4 in Hercules
Marcellus, Ed píše v Pá 18. 09. 2009 v 09:38 -0400:
> Has anyone installed either version under the Hercules emulator?
I successfully installed 5.3 cca one year ago. You can find my materials
from last year's FUDCon at http://sharkcz.fedorapeople.org/hercules/
> I have 2 Ubuntu Linux Hosts, 8.04 and 9.04, that I have tried installations
> on with no success so far.
> I am compiling Hercules 3.06 to try it next instead of the Hercules 3.05 that
> is part of Ubuntu.
3.06 is required for running RHEL 5 because of some kernel issues IIRC.
The kernel is right, but the support in Hercules is not.
Dan
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